Values
WHAT can we teach the children that cannot wander offto play, over the fields and meadows, as they did inother days?
What can we teach the childen, how can they know
who to trust, where are the values we used to have?
honesty, truth and gentleness, their loss is down
to us.
Can we begin to teach a new and better way, to respect
another's creed, that violence wins us nothing, we
must show them other people's needs.
What can we teach the childen so that they pay heed
and hear, to be still sometimes amid the haste, not
to give a yes to everything, that kindness is never
a waste.
We have to teach the children and point the way to go,
with everything in our pwoer, for the years ahead are
theirs, if they fail to learn these lessons, then
their failure could be ours.
Catherine Neale